Browsing GI-MODES - Artigos by Author "Lorenzo Freire, Silvia"

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A heuristic approach to the task planning problem in a home care business

Méndez-Fernández, Isabel; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; García-Jurado, Ignacio; Costa, Julián; Carpente, Luisa (Springer, 2020-12)

[Abstract]: In this paper, we study a task scheduling problem in a home care business. The company has a set of supervisors in charge of scheduling the caregivers’ weekly plans. This can be a time-consuming task due to the ...
An Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search algorithm for a real-world Home Care Scheduling Problem with time windows and dynamic breaks

Méndez-Fernández, Isabel; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; González Rueda, Ángel Manuel (Elsevier Ltd, 2023-11)

[Abstract]: This paper presents a Home Care Scheduling Problem (from now on HCSP) based on a real case of a care company for elderly and dependent people located in the North of Spain. The problem incorporates many of the ...
Two-stage optimization methods to solve the DNA-sample allocation problem

Noceda-Davila, Diego; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; Carpente, Luisa (MDPI, 2022-11)

[Abstract]: This paper deals with new methods capable of solving the optimization problem concerning the allocation of DNA samples in plates in order to carry out the DNA sequencing with the Sanger technique. These methods ...